Want to Work at Facebook? See This First.

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Meet Lori Goler, the woman who runs “People Operations” at the world’s most admired employer.


500 people -> 8 years later -> 15,000 engineers -> how to grow?

John Battelle interviewed HR person

Pay attention how she answered all questions, and how she demonstrated good communication skills, and showed confidence and talent. 

How to end up joining Facebook? 2007    <- quick to response

Human resource management? challenging problems.

Building for scale - marketing, how to get word out?
What to mean to work for Facebook? Understand their needs? Large audience, what they want?

Builder - Look for people loving to build things, and people working on ...
Try to do that, learn. Open to learn. Rather staying on the study

You are quite clear on average people -  young, workforce, rational for that age people?

Good for all age group - show up at work
Look at data - similar to all ages - Internally ...

Values - summer interns
More focus - social capitalism -

Company?
Facebook mission - get connected, people connect to that
Facebook stories, instagram stories - really do want people to get connected

Really put people in roles - outer align - people interest
Managers - future managers - best managers - individual contributors

Continue to learn
Best place to work - what else? Secret sauce
People are very good at what they do, and people ... open company, and everything - no secret, roadmap, and other things

Move fast, impact - make good impact on the world

How to best present yourself as a candidate?
Not score, GPA, and other things - people love to build, build, and they have side projects, summer internship, and build apps and done in past roles.

Builder mentality - something broken up internal - hashtag - feed family
internal - every day and all days

Share authentically - what her illness - her plan for treatment - rally around, hundreds comment
One thousand people - people tagged the video - caught on fire

Good culture - how close we are, feel like a family

10,000 or 15,000 employees - maturity - large people - how to grow
Everyone owns Facebook culture -
What is roadmap?
Culture team - 10,000 contributes to it.

Policy?
Parental leave - some of those approaches - spread around US - inspire other organaization
primary goal

Conscious bias -